ITA was a 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of UK children unable to spell
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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
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Engraving on an almost 2,000-year-old knife believed to be the oldest runes ever found in Denmark
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Danish dictionary to weed out gender stereotypes – ‘career women’ are now paired with ‘career men’ and manslaughter is a linguistic offence
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Greenlandic MP refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
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New gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed
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From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words
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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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